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Cross-cultural Sociolinguistics: Insights from Asia, Africa, and Latin America

August 26-28, 2021

Program

CET (CGN) / EST
(NYC)

THURSDAY
Aug 26

Insights from Latin America

FRIDAY
Aug 27

Insights from Asia

SATURDAY
Aug 28

Insights from Africa & Latin America

15:00 / 09:00 AMGregory Guy (NYU) & Aria Adli (University of Cologne):
Introduction

All students:
Short field reports

Johannes Müller (University of Cologne):
A few words of welcome of the International Office

Shobha Satyanath & Ranjan Kumar (University of Delhi):
Caste and social differentiation of speech

Komlan E. Essizewa (Université de Lomé):
Sociolinguistic profile of Togo
15:45 / 09:45 AMStudent paper
Miranda Lalinde (Cologne):
Language attitude change of the Embera Chami community in Corea Alta in Antioquia, Colombia		Gregory Guy & Aria Adli:
Variable subject pronouns in Persian and Portuguese: the role of age, gender, and politeness

Comments by Yahya Modarresi (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran)		Discussion with Ernesto Cuba (The Graduate Center (CUNY) on transgender speakers of Peruvian Spanish
16:30 / 10:30 AMDiscussion with Natalie Povilonis de Vilchez (NYU)Discussion with James Stanford (Darmouth College)Student papers on field projects around the world

Selikem Gotah (NYU):
Variation in Relativization in Hogbe-Ewe
17:15 / 11:15 AM

Student papers on field projects around the world

Laura Günther (Cologne):
Language attitude in Quechua speaking communities around Sucre, Bolivia, over 3 generations

Student papers on field projects around the world

Abed Qaddoumi (NYU):
Arabic Variation of Qar in Jordan

Sina Voss (Cologne):
The role of Amharic and the other four official languages in Ethiopia: Oromo, Somali, Afar and Tigrinya
18:00 / 12:00 PMLunch or dinner potluck in gather.town
19:00 / 01:00 PM

Student papers on field projects around the world

Amalia Canes-Nápoles (Cologne):
Sociolinguistic Variation of Spoken Cuban Spanish

Franziska Sprenger & Lea Bachmann (Cologne):
German native speaker's knowledge of prominent heritage languages

Alessia Cassarà (Cologne):
Sicilian: Language attitude and maintenance in nowadays Sicily

All students:
Main issues of the day

Student papers on field projects around the world

Vahid Mortezapour (Cologne):
Competing networks: Tracing the roots of language maintenance and shift in personal social networks

Zahra Farokhnejad (Tehran/Cologne):
Variations in Kurdish Ilam

Begum Saridede (NYU):
Language Use and Attitude of Crimean Tatars in Turkey




All students:
Main issues of the day

Student papers on field projects around the world

Eric Engel (Cologne):
Variation and style in the speech of the elderly: Insights from (dis-)fluency

Kimberly Baxter (NYU):
Syntactic Variation in African American English: The Case of Perfective done

 




Plenary discussion:
Further steps of the student research projects and the cross-cultural agenda

21:30 / 03:30 PMEnd of workshop day
Practical Information

Zoom

First steps

- Free download and installation of the Zoom Client for Meetings.
- Register with full name and valid e-mail address.
- Connect speakers and microphone and test: Home -> Settings -> Audio
- Familiarize with the app.

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Recommended settings

- Video: Settings -> Video -> Enable HD.

- Audio:

  1. Log in to Zoom Web Portal -> Settings ->  Enable: Allow users to select stereo audio in their client settings -> Log out.
  2. Log in to Zoom Desktop Client -> Settings -> Audio -> Advanced -> Enable Stereo audio. (Headphones are recommended to perceive the improvement through stereo audio.)
  3. (If this does not work right away, log out and log in again.)

Gather

Download instructions (provided by the Center for Digital Humanities, UoC) and try this online tutorial.

Gather works best with either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser.

Mural

Watch this short tutorial video on YouTube.

Jointly organized by Gregory Guy, Professor of Linguistics  at New York University and Aria Adli, Professor of Linguistics at Cologne University.